Ivan Gaskell
returned to Göttingen in late May for his annual two-month residency as
permanent senior fellow of the Advanced Study Institute of the Georg-August
University. In June, he gave the keynote address at the symposium “The Stuff of
Research” at the University of Glasgow, and a public lecture at Kelvin Hall,
University of Glasgow. He also gave a lecture in the colloquium series of the
Art History Institute of the Georg-August University, Göttingen.

Urmila Mohan’s
article, “Looms Are Good To Think With!”, was published
on the BGC Research
Forum in early June. It highlights what she has been working on with her students
and how her research intersects with her teaching.

Paul Stirton has
been appointed an advisor to the International
Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the advisory body to the UNESCO
World Heritage Convention regarding cultural and mixed cultural/natural
heritage. His area of responsibility for assessment of monuments will be
Central/Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

Ittai Weinryb
has been appointed to the editorial board of the Art Bulletin
for a term of four years. Published
since 1913 by the College Art Association, it is one of the foremost journals
in English for art historians.

Catherine Whalen
moderated the session “Historic Fictions: Empathy, Engagement and Feminist
Perspectives in the 21st-Century Museum” at the Berkshire Conference of Women
Historians. Held June 1–4 at Hofstra University, the conference’s theme was “Difficult
Conversations: Thinking and Talking About Women, Genders, and Sexualities
Inside and Outside the Academy.”